The Mausoleum of Shajar al-Durr is a mausoleum housing the tomb of the female Ayyubid sultan Shajar al-Durr in Cairo, Egypt. It is located on al-Khalifa...

Shajar al-Durr (Arabic: شجر الدر, lit. 'Tree of Pearls'), also Shajarat al-Durr (شجرة الدر), whose royal name was al-Malika ʿAṣmat ad-Dīn ʾUmm-Khalīl Shajar...

the Mausoleum of Shajar al-Durr, and the Mosque of Sayyida Sukayna. Further south, across a major road, stretches the Southern Cemetery (Qarafa) of Cairo...

Mausoleum of Shajar al-Durr Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya Mausoleum of Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil Mosque of Sayyida Sukayna Sultaniyya Mausoleum Mausoleum of...

Cleopatra, Shajar ad-Durr, and of the Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Khalil. More importantly, from a religious point of view, is the mosque and mausoleum of Sayyida...

Shajar al-Durr, as-Salih Ayyub's widow, had a mausoleum for as-Salih built adjacent to his madrasa. This established a medieval Islamic tradition of burying...

Ayyub's widow Shajar al-Durr being named sultana. In 1254, a power shift occurred in Egypt, as Aybak killed Faris ad-Din Aktai, the leader of the Bahri Mamluks...

hearing of al-Mu'azzam Turan-Shah's death and the ascension of Shajar al-Durr. An-Nasir Yusuf's army was much larger and better-equipped than that of the...

front of the mihrab. Other examples include the domes of the mausoleum of Ayyubid Sultan As-Salih Ayyub (1243-1250) and the Mausoleum of Shajar al-Durr (1250)...

Yusuf of Damascus and al-Mughith Umar of al-Karak. Consensus settled on al-Salih's widow, Shajar al-Durr. She ensured the Salihiyya's dominance of the paramilitary...